Returning (to) communities : : theory, culture and political practice of the communal / / edited by Stefan Herbrechter and Michael Higgins.

• Superior document: Critical studies ; v. 28
• TeilnehmendeR: Herbrechter, Stefan.; Higgins, Michael, 1967-
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Returning (to) Communities offers an innovative collection of examples and case studies into what has become a hotly disputed topic. The chapters present a wide-ranging series of interventions into the new debates over the concepts and practices of "community" and the communal. For this book, scholars have been gathered from across Europe and Australia as well as from the United States, and several contributors are involved in community practice. Returning (to) Communities is essential reading to researchers and students in social policy, sociology, ethnic studies, cultural analysis, media stu

Table of Contents

Table of Contents; Introduction; Section One: Conceptualising Communities; Comprehending Community; Theorising Europe from the Other Shore: Derrida, Community and the Exemplarity of Europe; Heterogeneous Community: Beyond New Traditionalism; Stanley Fish meet Jean-Paul Sartre: Community, Difference and Multicultural Theory; Thomas Kuhn's Construction of Scientific Communities; Jean-Luc Nancy: An Attempt to Reduce Community to Ontology; Webs as Pegs; Section Two: Communities and Cultural Praxis

Multilingualism and its Discontents: Hetero-Lingual Collectivity and the Critique of Homo-Lingual CommunitiesCultural Property and Collective Identity; Community in Resources, Tradition in Knowledge; Britain's Railway Engineers: The First Virtual Global Communities?; ""Nazi fans"" but not Neo-Nazis: The Cultural Community of ""WWII Fanatics""; Putting the Cult Back into Community; Mediated Self-Representations: ""Ordinary People"" in ""Communities""; Community and Communities in British Television Ads; The Bubble of Diaspora: Perpetuating ""Us"" Through Sacred Ideals

Section Three: Communities and Political PracticeThe Gay ""Community:"" Stabilising Political Construct or Oppressive Regulatory Regime?; Cull MAFF!: The Mobilisation of the Farming Community During the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Epidemic; Conflict and Cohesion: Official Constructions of ""Community"" Around the 2001 ""Riots"" in Britain; Aboriginal Politics, Self-Determination and the Rhetoric of Community; Building Heavens, Havens or Hells? Community as Policy in the Context of the Post-Washington Consensus; Contributors